Just to add a little to what others have said: While SH4 has indeed had more time to develop than SH5, it also had an advantage in the first place. SH4 is basically an improved SH3. Some problems were fixed, along with overall improvements. SH5 was a complete rewrite, still based on the older engine but employing new ideas that unfortunately broke some of the previous programming.
Most mods for SH5 had had to fix what was broken. There was a bit of that in SH4 and even in SH3, but for the most part it could be quickly dealt with and new goodies formulated. On the other hand SH4 suffered from coming just two years after SH3, which left a lot of modders tired from having just done so much for the first game. And, as mentioned, there was that whole "U-Boats vs Fleet Boats" thing. Some people just weren't turned on by the Pacific War. This is attested to by the fact that people are still making new mods for SH3, and it's going on ten years old.
The GWX team was preparing to make a version for SH4, but they wanted to fix some of the problems with GWX 2.1 before they started, so GWX4 was put off until SH5 was approaching release, and it looked to be real good at that point, and their team was pretty wiped out from the work they had been doing for the past several years, so that never happened.
Take a look at the SH4 section of Subsim Downloads. There is still quite a bit there to choose from.
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